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This is a challenging subject to tackle as far as music goes. You’ll find songs here with various messages but with similar themes that make a statement. Most evoke environmental awareness or aim to inspire action. You’ll also find those that chronicle environmental ravages and ruins. On the other hand a few in this list will simply celebrate the beauty, wonder and regenerative capacity of nature. This is definitely music that has a message or packs a punch to wake people up before it’s too late or claim it may already be too late.

So I present to you 50+ songs that may be considered environmental songs from the last few decades and a handful of more recent releases that make a statement about the plight of our precious planet (of which we only have one).

Now you can go ahead and create a CD mix or mp3 playlist to inspire, reflect and enjoy during your next Earth Day celebration event or, for that matter, year round action. You just might wanna make sure your CD player is running on solar power or perhaps connected to a windmill for turbine power. 😛

Songs About The Earth, Ecology & The Environment

American Child – John Denver

Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell

Black Moon – Emerson Lake & Palmer

Calypso – John Denver

Carbon Monoxide – Cake

Countdown To Extinction – Megadeth

Conviction of The Heart – Kenny Loggins

Death of Mother Nature Suite – Kansas

Don’t Go Near The Water – The Beach Boys

Don’t Go Near The Water – Johnny Cash (entirely different song than above)

Earth Anthem – The Turtles, Dan Fogelberg

Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate) – John Denver

Earth Song – Michael Jackson

Ecology Song – Stephen Stills

Garden of Eden – New Riders of The Purple Sage

Godzilla – Blue Oyster Cult

Gone – Jack Johnson

Good Planets Are Hard To Find – Steve Forbert

Goodbye To A River – Don Henley

Hands All Over – Soundgarden

Heal The World – Michael Jackson

I Remember California – REM

I’d Love To Change The World – Ten Years After

If A Tree Falls – Bruce Cockburn

In The Year 2525 – Zager & Evans

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song) – Marvin Gaye

Monkey Gone To Heaven – The Pixies

Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) – Neil Young

My City Was Gone – The Pretenders

Nature’s Way – Spirit

(Nothing But) Flowers – Talking Heads

One Sweet World – Dave Matthews Band

Only A Dream – Adrian Belew

Paradise – John Prine

Pass It On Down – Alabama

Plan It Earth – Richard Sinclair

Pollution – Tom Lehrer

Rain On The Scarecrow – John Cougar Mellencamp

Shapes of Things – The Yardbirds

Song For A Dying Planet – Joe Walsh

Subdivisions – Rush

Supernova – Liquid Blue

The 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuses & Recycle) – Jack Johnson

The Last Resort – The Eagles

The Sun Is Burning – Simon & Garfunkel

The Trees – Rush

To The Last Whale: A Critical Mass/Wind On The Water – David Crosby & Graham Nash